AGE CONCERN BRACKNELL
- COOPERS HILL CENTRE, BAGSHOT ROAD
RG12 7QS BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE
Phone: +44 (0) 1344 428074
Fax: 01484 517351
www.ageconcernbracknell.org.uk
Short profile:
The Centre was set up by Age Concern Bracknell Forest to provide a service for elderly people who are mentally confused and living within the Bracknell Forest Borough Council area. Our task is to care for the elderly in a friendly atmosphere and to stimulate them in homely surroundings. Whilst recognising their special needs we place great importance in respecting our clients as individuals. Our aim is for them to feel comfortable and at ease: the Age Concern Day Centre is in a bright and modern building, purpose built to allow the elderly the freedom that they would expect in their own homes. There is also a very pleasant, small enclosed garden which is well used by our clients in the warmer months.
Detailed description:
We don't always need someone else to arrange social care support for us - this is known, quite simply, as self-directed support. We have put together some help and advice around relevant legislation‚ the requirements of local authorities‚ current limitations and practical guidance. As there is no new legislation on which the government’s ‘personalisation’ policy has been based, it is necessary to show its legal foundations in the development of direct payments legislation and related guidance, and to emphasise that existing rights to social care provision have not changed.
This includes your right to be able to make informed choices whilst receiving the necessary levels of safeguarding from risks. Self directed assessment and support planning require appropriate information, advice and ongoing support to enable you to experience the overall aim of greater choice and control over service provision and funding arrangements.
You should not feel pressed into taking on more responsibility than you feel is necessary with regard to the planning and funding of your care package and you should be assisted to make arrangements that best suit your capacity and aims.
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